Draft Decision for the Council of Defence onThe Mobilisation of Soviet Employees[1]

Written:Written not later than May 31, 1919Published:First published in 1933 in LeninMiscellany XXIV.

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§ 1.Allmale employees of Soviet institutions between
the ages of 18 and 45 [better more, as some will be exempted] to be
mobilised for 4 months (from 15.VI to 15.X) and to be replaced by women or
part of the work to be temporarily reduced.

Noteto § 1. Only people who are ill or absolutely
indispensable, but not more than 10 per cent, shall be exempted with the
permission of a special commission.

§ 2.Themobilised men to be placed at the disposal of
the military authorities. To present themselves (date).

§ 3.Themobilised men to answer for each other by
collective liability and their families to be considered hostages in the
event of their deserting to the enemy or failing to carry out assignments,
etc.

§ 4.Themobilised men to form small groups,
preferably of different professions, so that each group may take upon
itself, in the rear and at the front, various tasks in connection with
troop formation, ferrying, maintenance and so on.

§ 5.Eachmobilised person is obliged to form for
himself out of supplies received from C,E.C. and other stores a small
collection of the most needful propaganda booklets and leaflets, with which
he is duty bound to familiarise the soldiers and population and report
every week on how he performs these duties.

§ 6.Eachmobilised person, immediately on being
mobilised, but not later than within ... days, is obliged to give detailed
information as to his education, previous employment or occupation, places
of former residence, knowledge of foreign languages, etc., in accordance
with a programme to be specially drawn up.

[1]OnMay 31, 1919, the Council of Defence considered questions relating
to mobilisation. The Council endorsed the decree drafted by Lenin (see
pp. 138-39 of this volume) and decisions directing the People’s
Commissariat for Food to provide themobilised men with food and ordering
the conscription status of employees in all departments and institutions to
be checked with the object of placing at the disposal of the military
command all such persons who were liable for service in the armed forces
and who could be replaced without great detriment to the work by persons
who were not liable or by women.